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- Endive cultivation in the own garden
- Endives in the profile
- When will endives be planted?
- Where are endives planted?
- The most important key data for endive cultivation
- Which care do endives need?
- When will endives be harvested?
Endives are only grown in summer
Endive cultivation in the own garden
Endives are a delicious late summer salad that can be harvested deep into the fall. Below you will learn the most important to endives, where and when they are grown and when can be harvested.
Endives in the profile
When will endives be planted?
If endives are seeded too soon, you run the risk of the salad quickly blooming and hardly forming any leaves. Therefore, the right sowing time is crucial. A good guide is here from mid-June to mid-July. Plants that you preferred on the windowsill can be planted in July / August. The ideal sowing time varies slightly depending on the endive variety. Here we have put together an overview for you with the most important varieties of endives and their sowing date.
Where are endives planted?
Endive salad likes bright and nutritious. It makes sense to enrich the soil with compost some time before sowing. In addition, endives may only be grown in the same place every three years.
The most important key data for endive cultivation
Which care do endives need?
Especially after sowing, the endives must be watered as often as possible. Young plantlets are extremely sensitive to dryness. Fertilizer needs the endive salad after sowing rather little, if you have enriched the soil before composting with compost. But you can spoil it with some mulch or blue fertilizer.
Since endives can also be harvested late in the fall, the question arises of the frost hardiness. A few degrees below zero normally do nothing to the plants. Nevertheless, you do well to protect them with foil or a little brush, especially at night from excessive frost.
When will endives be harvested?
Endives can usually be harvested three months after sowing. Mostly the harvest time is between August and November. The exact harvest time depending on the variety can be found here.